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Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss why communication with non-technical stakeholders is the skill that separates good developers from truly great ones. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/03/08/the-gap-between-good-developers-and-great-ones-dev-leader-weekly-130
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Master semantic kernel plugin best practices for C# developers. Learn KernelFunction descriptions, error handling, and production patterns. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/03/08/semantic-kernel-plugin-best-practices-and-patterns-for-c-developers
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Strategy pattern best practices in C#: code organization, maintainability tips, dependency injection, testing strategies, and professional implementation guidelines. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/03/08/strategy-pattern-best-practices-in-c-code-organization-and-maintainability
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A review of the Azure Core SDK reveals alarming code quality issues, including significant code violations and inadequate unit testing. Key problems include improper IDisposable implementations, performance anti-patterns, and a lack of globalization support. Although it received a grade of C, reliance on this SDK poses …
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Master Semantic Kernel OpenAPI plugin integration in C# to connect REST APIs as AI tools. Import specs, configure auth, and invoke endpoints. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/03/07/semantic-kernel-openapi-plugin-integration-in-c-connect-any-rest-api-as-an-ai-tool
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When to use Prototype pattern in C#: decision guide with examples, use cases, and scenarios where cloning objects is better than creating new instances. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/03/07/when-to-use-prototype-pattern-in-c-decision-guide-with-examples
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Learn about five essential architecture tests that can help ensure the quality and maintainability of your .NET projects. Link to article: https://www.milanjovanovic.tech/blog/5-architecture-tests-you-should-add-to-your-dotnet-projects
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TL;DR Claude Opus 4.6 + Sonnet 4.6: Anthropic's frontier models arrive in Foundry with 1M-token context (beta), adaptive thinking, and context compaction — Opus for deep reasoning, Sonnet for cost-efficient scale. GPT-Realtime-1.5 & GPT-Audio-1.5: Next-gen audio models w Link to article: …
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Understand Semantic Kernel function calling in C# -- the difference between native functions and prompt functions, how auto-invoke works, FunctionChoiceBehavior options, and when to use each type in your .NET AI applications. Link to article: …
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We’re improving how add-ins appear on the ribbon in Outlook on the web and the new Outlook on Windows. These Outlook ribbon updates make add-ins easier to find and align the experience across Outlook clients. Improvements include: Showing the group name specified in your manifest for the add-in’s ribbon button (instead …
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Today we are excited to announce the Release Candidate (RC) of TypeScript 6.0! To get started using the RC, you can get it through npm with the following command: npm install -D typescript@rc TypeScript 6.0 is a unique release in t Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-6-0-rc
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A new release of the Microsoft build of Go including security fixes is now available for download. For more information about this release and the changes included, see the table below: Microsoft Release Upstream Tag Link to article: …
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In the midst of some let’s call it “market” research to better understand how Marten stacks up to a newer competitor, I stumbled back over a GitHub discussion I initiated in 2021 called “What would it take for you to adopt Marten?” long before I was able to found JasperFx Software. I seeded this original … Continue …
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A customer was using ReadDirectoryChangesW to monitor changes to a directory. However, they ran into a problem when they received a FILE_ACTION_REMOVED notification: Since the notification is raised when the item is deleted, they can't do a GetFileAttributesEx to find out whether Link to article: …
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How do you share code between vertical slices? Vertical slices are supposed to be share nothing, right? Wrong. It is not about share nothing. It is about sharing the right things and avoiding sharing the wrong things. That is really the point. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content on …
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Jenkins has always been defined by its extensibility. With more than 1,800 available plugins, there’s rarely a CI/CD problem without a plugin that addresses it. That same extensibility, however, is also the most common source of instability, security exposure, and operational overhead in Jenkins environments. This …
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When to use Strategy pattern in C#: decision criteria, code examples, and scenarios to determine if Strategy pattern is the right choice for your application. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/03/06/when-to-use-strategy-pattern-in-c-decision-guide-with-examples
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To celebrate International Women’s Day, we sat down with Cecilia Liu, Senior Product Manager at Docker, for three questions about the vision and strategy behind Docker’s MCP solutions. From shaping product direction to driving AI innovation, Cecilia plays a key role in defining how Docker enables secure, scalable AI …
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Codex Security is an AI application security agent that analyzes project context to detect, validate, and patch complex vulnerabilities with higher confidence and less noise. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/codex-security-now-in-research-preview
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Descript uses OpenAI models to scale multilingual video dubbing, optimizing translations for both meaning and timing so dubbed speech sounds natural across languages. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/descript
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